web building picks

 

a list apart A List Apart is a beautifully understated site, full of thoughtful articles about web design, content, culture and coding. Its contributors list includes some of the best-known names in web design, including Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer. Worth visiting often.
digital web magazine Digital Web Magazine is a must-read resource for Web developers. Its tutorials, features and columns provide both commonsense and highly opinionated articles about content, design and the business of Web publishing. If you want to make your site more attractive, become a regular reader. Best of all, it's free.
w3schools.com If you want to learn about almost any of the important Web languages and technologies – HTML, DHTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, WML, DTD, WAP, SOAP, ASP, JavaScript, you name it! – then w3schools is the place to visit. This is a wonderful resource, with extensive tutorials on all the abovementioned topics and more.
jakob nielsen’s alertbox Jakob Nielsen's site may not look like much, but if you want to know more about how to make your web site usable and get practical examples of good and bad site design, he's a must read.  Nielsen speaks incredibly good sense about practical Web issues, such as bandwidth, how users read Web pages, and Web page design.

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